Automatic Fingerprint Identification system (AFIS) is the biggest fingerprint and criminal history system in the world which operates 365 days a year. The system responds to requests 24 hours a day in order to help federal partners and law enforcements solve crimes. Not only does the Automatic Fingerprint Identification system (AFIS) hold a role for saving fingerprints and criminal records, but also the system provides automated …show more content…
After feedback on the lack of the system, the FBI decided to commit to change in the system to improve the system. They created a concept called Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). The AFIS was broken down into three separate components within this system, which were all designed to pursue different tasks. The three components are; identification, tasking and networking, these were designed and build by Litton PRC, the criminal history within the system was designed and built by SAIC and AFIS was designed and built Lockheed Martin. The new system was designed to help enforcements in criminal activity around the world. It was designed to support agencies and international communities or up to 70,000 federal agencies. The design had to consider existing systems in identification and not …show more content…
However the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and National Institute for Science (NIST) standards were routinely required for new systems. The Biometric Standards were what elucidated the limitations of demographic based searches. The substituting of data was crucial for standards and Interoperability. All the standards have limits in images and minutiae M-1 is strictly 1:1, the interoperability is based upon images and all major automatic fingerprint identification system (AFIS) venders have deployed complaints with those standards and the venders have all delivered standards complaint images. The standards are not the complete solution for interoperability, automatic fingerprint identification system (AFIS) technology balances on three main areas. The first one is reliability, which is to find the culprit, the automatic fingerprint identification system (AFIS) requirement for this is 95%. The second one is the selectivity of misidentifying, which was set at as requirement of 1%. Finally, filter or penetration rate, this is how much of the data is search biometrically, automatic fingerprint identification system (AFIS) was 2% of this fingerprint database. With these three criteria’s, a system performance was measured in speed, accuracy, transaction volume and flexibility. The systems performance requirements evolve so the system must adopt to that evolution and the